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Yuri Estrin
Yuri Estrin (professor), also written "Juri Estrin", is an international authority on materials science and engineering, particularly in the areas of physical metallurgy, materials modelling, and development of new materials. He is a list of Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science, fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and recipient of an honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2008. In 2015, he won a Thomson Reuters Australian Citation Award. Yuri Estrin was born and educated in the former Soviet Union, where he completed his university studies in Physics and Materials Engineering in Moscow with a high distinction. He worked as a researcher at the Institute of Crystallography of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and received his PhD degree from that institution in 1975. In 1977, he briefly visited Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. After leaving the Soviet Union in the Leonid Brezhnev years, Estrin migrated to Germany and ultimat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |